In Memoriam Ron Vater
Ron Vater passed away on Jan. 25, his 63rd birthday. Vater’s life was immersed in drumming and drumsticks from childhood. He spent many days of his youth at his grandfather’s store, Jack’s Drum Shop, in Boston. Jack Adams (Joan Vater’s father) would bring Ron and his brother Alan along with him to see many of his friends’ concerts when they came to Boston, including Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Elvin Jones and many more. His late teens and early 20s saw Vater working at C. Vater Music Center in Norwood, Mass., where he was a lifelong resident. Ron and Alan would help run the store with their father, the late Clarence “Clarry” Vater. It was while working at this store that the Vater drumstick business was essentially conceived. They experienced a drumstick supply issue from a well-known manufacturer at the time, and Ron and Alan took it upon themselves to rent machine time locally and start Amazing making their own drumsticks ance perform e, for the store, just as Jack Adpric for the ams had done at his store in the e really any pric early 1950s. P. -David The Vater brothers made drumstick manufacturing a fulltime endeavor in the mid-1980s. “Ron loved Vater Percussion. He loved his high school sweetheart and wife of many years, Susan. He loved their boys,
Leon Louis Galison
Leon Louis Galison, 64, of St. Augustine, Fla., passed away Jan. 11 with family by his side. Galison was born on June 18, 1955 to Joan and Lawrence Galison of Roslyn, N.Y. In 1973, the family relocated to Miami Lakes, Fla. He graduated from the University of Miami in 1977 with a degree in business administration. After graduation, Galison joined the family business, music publisher Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., which became his lifelong career. For more than 45 years, Galison’s mission was to bring sheet music to the musical world. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations be made to the American Bandmasters Association (americanbandmasters. org), an organization Galison truly believed in and admired.
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Eric and Dante Vater. He loved cars, fishing, spending time with friends and the many Vater artists that became part of his extended family over these years. He loved that the drumsticks Vater Percussion made were being used around the world by passionate musicians,” Vater Percussion stated in a tribute. “Ron Vater will be missed by all those who knew him and worked with him.”
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